Morawetz Quartet for Next Concert
The first major composition of a young, Czechoslovakian pianist, Oskar Morawetz, will be introduced to the Canadian radio audience by a Toronto string
group this week. The work titled "String Quartet in F Minor," is the third
in a series featuring five compositions that won awards in this year's Canadian Performing Right Society competition. The quartet will be heard on Sunday, April 1, at 1.30 p.m. EDT, 2.30 p.m. ADT, over
the CBC Trans-Canada network.
Critics who attended the work's concert premiere in Toronto earlier this year gave high praise, one noted authority describing the piece as "a
work of genius for harmonic tone in modern form."
Morawetz was born in Prague where he was tutored in music by Jarosllav Kricka, a pupil of Dvorak. He later studied piano
in Vienna and Paris, and came to Canada in 1940.
